Hitachi drives virtual 3D storage

Hitachi Data Systems is trying to position itself as the go-to vendor for the channel in the data centre transformation market, reports IT Business.

Hitachi has released 3D scaling storage as part of its virtual storage platform. According to the company, it scales up for apps and servers, scales out for multiple servers and changing workloads, and scales deep to extend the life of heterogeneous storage systems.

According to Jack Domme, CEO of Hitachi, about 70% of all new servers will be virtual. “We need to scale up to meet the need for all these apps and access the data where these apps sit on these servers to make them more efficient.”

Mellanox Technologies and Dell will make available adapters from Mellanox that allow PowerEdge M1000e Dell Chassis and M-Series Blade Servers to connect to InfiniBand and 10GB Ethernet storage systems, states CTO Edge.

According to Brian Sparks, senior director of product marketing for Mellanox, customers are looking to deploy both InfiniBand and 10GB Ethernet storage systems side by side.

Sparks says IT organisations are looking for ways to support virtual servers that will have multiple applications on them that might need to access either storage system.

Seagate has introduced BlackArmor network storage servers NAS 440 and NAS 220, says CBR Online.

The desktop network attached storage offerings are claimed to help data-intensive small businesses address evolving storage needs.

Seagate says network storage servers extend the capacity range of its BlackArmor family of storage offerings, enabling businesses to scale from 1TB to 12TB to help keep pace with high-definition multimedia files and business critical data.